Effects of buoyancy-driven convection on melting within spherical containers

DOI10.1016/S0017-9310(00)00192-7zbMath0992.76085OpenAlexW1982893327MaRDI QIDQ5931890

J. M. Khodadadi, Y. Zhang

Publication date: 11 September 2002

Published in: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0017-9310(00)00192-7

zbMATH Keywords

porous mediumheat transferbuoyancy-driven convectionconstrained meltingDarcy lawiterative finite volume numerical proceduremelt zonephase changePrandtl numbersingle-domain enthalpy formulationsolid-liquid interfacespherical containers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stefan problems, phase changes, etc. (80A22) Multiphase and multicomponent flows (76T99) Finite volume methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M12) Free convection (76R10)

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